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Defiant cabin crew marching around Heathrow to show that they are looking forward to the next round of the struggle with BA union-buster Walsh

‘WE’RE READY FOR THE NEXT ROUND’ say BA cabin crew

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THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew marched around Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon waving flags, chanting: ‘Willie, Willie, Willie! Out! Out! Out!’ They received enthusiastic...

One million infected by disease in Gaza!

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GAZA’S Health Ministry has detected about one million cases of infectious diseases, but doesn’t have the medical capabilities to treat them, as the situation...

RMT slams ‘bandit capitalism’

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THE RMT is demanding action after Better Capital has confirmed that it expects its £20 million investment back while City Link staff and sub-contractors...

Hamas never agreed to surrender all its weapons during ceasefire talks

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A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...
Postal workers marched on Royal Mail head office in July demanding the resignation of Royal Mail chief executive  Adam Crozier

CWU TO LOBBY UNITE – stop managers scabbing!

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...

OXFORD NHS CRISIS! – 600 jobs to go at Radcliffe Hospital

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday reacted in shock and anger to the announcement by Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust that it plans to cut 600...
Busworkers protesting outside Victoria Coach Station in London yesterday against their appalling working conditions

WE WANT RESPECT! say London busworkers

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‘GIVE us toilets on our stands, don’t just sit there on your hands!’ shouted over 300 bus workers outside Victoria Coach Station yesterday morning. TGWU...

Forty universities infected by Covid

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AS MANY as 40 different universities around the UK have now reported corona cases as the virus sweeps through the education system. After the University...
Campaigners outside the House of Lords yesterday

No Benefit Cuts!

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campaigners lobbied the House of Lords yesterday demanding ‘no going back to Dickensian days’. They also chanted ‘Defend Child Benefit for all’, ‘Oppose all benefit...

Defend Gp Surgeries!

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GP LEADERS yesterday handed in a 16,000-strong petition from patients to Downing Street demanding ministers act urgently to help GP practices under threat of...

Occupation turning regime troops into animals says Kotler

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AN ISRAELI news anchor Oshrat Kotler has blamed the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands for turning regime troops into ‘animals’. She has defended her...

Greenford Bus Workers To Join Mass Picket

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are holding their monthly mass picket at the Beacon Roundabout, Beacon Road, near Heathrow Airport, Terminal Four from 11am to...

Gaza workers closure protest

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HUNDREDS of workers protested on Monday in front of the al-Awda biscuit factory in Deir al-Balah in Gaza in Palestine, after the plant was...

Answer Walsh’s War On Unite With A General Strike!

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BA BOSS Walsh’s war on the Unite trade union was stepped up yesterday when he turned down a Unite offer to suspend the strike...

Johnson declares sanctions war on Russia with Starmer’s support

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TORY PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer came together yesterday in their sanctions attack on Russia – the only disagreement being that...
Junior Doctors to continue defending NHS

Junior Doctors industrial action – reject proposed new contract in full

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JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...

TORY ATTACK ON DISABLED – UN to launch inquiry

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The United Nations is to launch an inquiry into whether Tory attacks on the disabled have led to ‘grave or systematic violations’ of their...

80,000 Civil Servants Out!

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Up to 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), today begin a...

OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire

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German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...
The Secretary of the Greek Cinema and TV Technicians trades union Chrysa Daponte and her friends at the Syntagma rally. Daponte is showing the newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League, Greek Section of the ICFI, with the headline ‘for an indefinite p

Greek Workers March Against Merkel!

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OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...

‘CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE’ – Gadaffi urges in his will

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THREE days after his death, a website has published the last will written by murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi. In his will, the Libyan leader...
Doncaster Care UK strikers picketing the company’s London headquarters in May

Doncaster care workers: three more weeks of strike

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DONCASTER care workers have stepped up their fight yesterday, the first day of a further three weeks of strike action in an escalating battle...

‘Stop Israeli ethnic cleansing’ – demands Hamas

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HAMAS has called on the international community to take immediate action to ‘stop the crime of forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and massacres’ carried out...
Dale Farm residents defying bailiff and police moves to evict them yesterday

Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

Jenin refugee camp ‘completely destroyed’

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‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and...

GM GOES BANKRUPT! – occupy GM Vauxhall & nationalise to save jobs

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Senior executives at General Motors were meeting yesterday to finalise restructuring plans and proceed to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. US President Barack Obama...

500 Killed In Israeli Bombing Of Gaza!

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ISRAELI warplanes rained terror on Gaza yesterday, targeting ambulances, market places and refugee camps. Warplanes fired missiles at the mosque in the centre of Shati...

70,000 Nurses Shortfall In Next 5 Years

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A LEAKED copy of the Tory government report into the NHS staffing crisis reveals that there is set to be a shortfall of nearly...

Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis

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THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...
Heavily armed Greek anti-terrorist units confronted residents in the small coastal town of Ierissos – cr. Left.gr

Anti-terror units attack town!

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SQUADS of the Greek anti-terrorist units and riot police armed with automatic weapons, early on Thursday morning occupied the small coastal town of Ierissos...
Firefighters from across the country taking part in a TUC national demonstration against austerity

Fire cuts endanger public

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UP TO 18 fire engines are unavailable to respond to emergencies each day in North Yorkshire because of chronic staff shortages, the Fire Brigades...

QUEEN’S SPEECH WALKOUT! – by angry PCS members

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thousands of PCS members are walking out for one hour today, at 11.00am, coinciding with the Queen’s Speech, which will be outlining...
Camden Unison’s picket outside Haverstock School yesterday

No Victimisation!

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Camden Unison held a demonstration outside Haverstock School, north London yesterday in support of the school’s Unison shop steward William Westwell who has been...

34 Sixth Form Colleges Out Today!

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THIRTY-FOUR sixth form colleges are on strike today to demand more funding for their students and their colleges. Nine colleges are joining the strike action...

Corbyn Wins High Court Challenge!

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IN A VICTORY for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a high court challenge which attempted to overturn his right to stand in the Labour...
Demonstrators stage a protest in Trafalgar Square demanding the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay

TORTURE EXPOSED! – Binyam Mohamed case sent to Attorney General

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Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...

70,000 workers to be balloted over 1.75%! – Unite, Unison & GMB demand 10%...

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SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...

Trump Supporter Shot Dead In Portland

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A MAN was shot dead in Portland, Oregon as a large demonstration of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters. The city...
A section of Monday’s lunchtime rally of CWU members outside the BT Centre to demand the company pay up their 5% pay claim

‘It’s time to stop talking and start fighting!’

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One Hundred BT workers and their supporters staged a lunchtime rally outside the BT centre in central London yesterday having begun their ballot for...
Junior doctors block Whitehall during their strike – doctors oppose NHS England’s new dangerous ‘Stay Well Pharmacy’ campaign

‘Go to pharmacist, not GP or A&E’ – NHS England campaign slammed as dangerous

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TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...

Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!

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THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...
Striking BA cabin crew marching defiantly through Heathrow – are demanding that Unite names the dates for more strike actions to win their dispute

BAA MASSIVE STRIKE VOTE – as Cameron puts the boot in

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Unite union members working for British Airports Authority (BAA) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action, the union announced at a press conference yesterday afternoon. The...
RMT members demonstrate opposite Downing St in July after the collapse of Metronet, demanding tube maintenance be taken back ‘in-house’. PM Brown refused

‘WE REJECT PRIVATISATION’ – says RMT leader on eve of strike

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‘WE DON’T accept privatisation,’ RMT rail union leader Bob Crow said yesterday, on the eve of today’s strike by over 2,300 RMT members employed...

Israeli forces intensify West Bank demolitions!

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ISRAELI forces have intensified demolitions in the occupied West Bank and face growing accusations of pursuing a coordinated campaign to erase Palestinian presence and...
Striking ambulance workers at Greenwich depot in south east London – patients lives will be endangered if ambulances are replaced by Skype

999 calls diverted – ‘Gambling with patients lives!’

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‘AMBULANCE workers skills are being downgraded by schemes which suggest that a video call can be a substitute for an emergency service arriving at...